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RENDEZVOUS

The Race Continues -- Meet Some New Runners

by Cindy Snyder, Superior Community Church

The Olympics are now a memory, and I reflect on the track and field events, in particular, the relay race. The Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 9 that we all run in a race. Part of my "race" is leading Bible studies. In May all the girls that were in the Bible study I teach on Wednesdays graduated from high school and have moved on to college.

I spent a great deal of time this summer discussing this with God and seeking His will regarding what to do this fall. I felt God's leading to continue this study even if only one or two came.

So it began. The baton has been successfully passed from these other girls to the new ones. For the first couple weeks two girls came. When asked what they wanted to study, they said they wanted to study witnessing and how to minister to their friends at school and having the courage to do so. We started going through the plan of salvation from several different passages.

We were going through Ephesians 2:1-10 when another girl came. The following week I had planned to go through the "Romans Road" when two more showed up. We have prayed for one of the girls for quite a long time. God is answering prayers! She has returned each week. This is so exciting! It is through the prayers of God's saints in the stands that these kids are faithfully running the race and the baton is being passed. There are now six who are attending.

Another way the baton has been passed is through the youth group. The girls who graduated had started a student-run devotional time on Friday mornings before school. They met for a devotion that one of them would teach and then pray together just as teens. The devotional time is being continued with some of the young men as the leaders.

God's Word is being proclaimed; the race is still in process. When you pray for the missionaries of the Rocky Mountain Bible Mission you also touch these young people. Thank you for your prayers as the race continues, and the baton continues to be passed. The light at the Olympics in Australia may be out now, but the light that God lit many years ago in Montana continues to burn brightly.